My Beloved Has Risen from Death’s Embrace

tted her startled chest, exhaling a relieved breath, “What a coincidence, I finally managed to get a break from the film set, and here you are!”

“It’s only ten o’clock, still early. Can I come over to your place for some late–night snacks?”

“What are you holding? Do you have work tonight?”

It had been days since she last saw him, and upon seeing him, Xanthea chattered joyfully, only to notice after a while that the man in front of her had a dark, ominous look on his face, his presence chilling like eternal ice, sending a shiver down her spine.

“Orion, what’s wrong? Did something upset you?”

“So everyone can, but not me, is that it?”

Orion looked at her; his gaze was piercing and cold, reminiscent of the chilling sharpness when he first saw her body in that old crypt.

Xanthea was both puzzled and frightened by his stare, “What do you mean by ‘can‘ or ‘cannot‘? Orion, what are you talking about?”

that felt like a blade slicing through her cheek. As he was about to enter Room 3001, Xanthea

a fiancée, do you think it’s appropriate to have a secret rendezvous with another man In the middle of the night?” Orion turned

with a look of total bewilderment on

he calling her Ms. Nightshade

issue seems to be “secret rendezvous with a man in the

loud slam of the door startled Xanthea, and. She quickly realized what he meant–could

Benjamin to Sunset Hills Estates for a secret rendezvous, and he caught

are

“Bang, bang, bang!”

“Bang, bang, bany!”

frustrated, kept banging on the door of 3001, shouting, “Hey, Orion, come out and explain

only ten o’clock, how is that considered

just here to discuss the script with me, and you twisted it into an affair? Don’t you think you’re being a bit

touched her head before leaving was